mosquito season begins zika rye rust found its way in our area prevention efforts underway in the region to keep zika from spreading. "eyewitness news" at 6:00 starts right now. >> we begin with breaking news chopper three over a rescue at a grain bin on burlington county farm. this is at the provaco road in chesterfield township. emergency personnel just freed the man i'm told from that grain bin and he is now on the way to the hospital. more details, as we continue, our broadcast. our other top story, and gray skies and rain in the area today but worse is yet to come. we're tracking possibility of a severe weather. >> good evening, i'm ukee washington. i'm jessica dean. the lets get over to meteorologist lauren case any for kate bilo tonight. what can we expect in the coming days, lauren. >> we have potential for

severe weather as we head into sunday but pretty quiet for this evening. we have had showers, mainly this morning, break out those umbrellas but activities really starting to wayne especially over last hour. it looking ominous outside with all that gray cloud cover but really shower activity sparse at this point. much of the showers off to the south and west, couple sprinkles up towards poconos, otherwise pretty quiet conditions radar wise. temperatures, we were fairly cool today, running a little bit below average, and it is our coolest day in about two weeks in philadelphia a. 74 degrees is your current temperature. seventy-four in allentown. we are at 07 in ac. glorious looking beach day as we head into our upcoming weekend but not too bad either. if you want to stick your beach chair out, a few breaks of sunshine for your saturday. 81 degrees. uv index at seven. watch out for afternoon thunderstorm but highs really focused really heading in to sunday, large area for potential of severe weather, storm prediction center does

have much of the delaware valley in a slight risk. main threat time frame will be late afternoon and into the evening hours, and, even south of the city, portions of delaware in the enhanced risk, a third category on this severe weather risk scale, so we will talk about what to expect and main threats, and when those threats will start rolling in and rolling out and full forecast coming up in just a few. >> okay, we will see you then, thank you. new at 6:00 a north north pen high school student was in a montgomery county courtroom today. he is accused offsetting a fire in the high school's band storage room forcing students and staff to evacuate. as "eyewitness news" reporter greg argos explains the school is dealing with the clean up approaching one million-dollar. >> reporter: ten days ago may 24th a fire broke out here at north penn high school, today a 17 year-old student from the school in juvenile court, admit to go felony arson and causing a catastrophe charges. the teenager's mother leaving

the montgomery county juvenile court hearing, on friday. the judge ordering her son to undergo both psychological and psychiatric evaluations, before his sentencing, within 20 days. attorneys for both sides, did not want to speak on camera. >> students are naturally upset that one of their own would start a fire. they are trying to understand why someone would do that but they are dealing with as best as they can. >> reporter: doctor curtis dietrich says students are dealing with the stress, as district officials are cleaning with the clean up cordoning off most damage area of the band room and surrounding storage offices. >> estimates approximately 800 you this dollars in total, of that 500,000 is damage to the property, and there is about $300,000 worth of damage to the contents. most significant portion of the damage to the contents is sheet music and then musical instruments that were in that room. >> reporter: he says school will pay for cleaning students instruments. >> there were 200 instruments in there, good news, none of the injuries are a total loss.

>> reporter: but physical repair and reconstruction to the building will take much longer. >> it is a big clean up. we have companies that we have engaged to come in and assess damage and in regards to rebuilding the area that will take a couple months. >> reporter: as for those evacuations on the 17 year-old prosecutors say they will ask for permanent placement that means that the student here's involved in this case could be in custody, until the age of 21. reporting here from lansdale i'm greg argos for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". bucks county small business owner is being commended tonight for using deadly force to stop a would be robber. "eyewitness news" reporter alexandria hoff joins us from fair less hills with more on what happened, alex? >> reporter: ukee, locals who know this business owner described him as kind, hard working but now being hailed by many tonight as a hero, not only for protecting himself but potentially stopping tens of thousands of dollars worth of prescription medications from hitting the streets. >> when somebody has a shotgun you have every right to expect that they will use it, and you

are justified killing him. >> reporter: it is right no business owner expects to exercise, at 10:00 a.m. that is when police say owner of the pennsbury pharmacy in levittown saw a man get out of the fan, in a halloween mask and approach his store. >> the owner yelled to him several times i'm armed, do not come into this store. >> reporter: but the man did, police say suspect charged owner and exposed a shotgun from inside an umbrella but was stopped as he leaped through the back pharmacy petition, shot and killed by the store owner's hand gun. owner set off an alarm to notify authorities. meanwhile a van found to be stolen was waiting to be out front and inside of it police say this man. >> what were you thinking sitting out here. >> reporter: accomplice according to prosecutors whom did not hear gunfire, thus did not flee. he is now facing major charges >> we will prosecute his surviving co conspirator, both for the crime of robbery and

for the death of his co-defendant. >> reporter: when asked about charges he mumled only that he was quote, set up. >> so even though police have this alleged accomplice, in custody, they are still trying to id this deceased suspect. so right new we are showing you a tattoo, it is some sort of tribal marking and wear wolf of some sort? if anyone recognizes that they are asked to call falls township police. reporting live, this evening, alexandria hoff for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> alex, thank you for that. unless bucks county a car crashes in to a fire house today, you can see one of the firehouse doors and part of the brick exterior suffered heavy damage. investigators tell us there were no injuries, the cause of the crash is being looked into. new at 6:00 tonight south jersey towns fighting mosquitoes to prevent transmission of the zika virus. >> our cleve bryan shows us what they are doing to prevent it from spreading.

>> so we will address them this one does not have zika a virus. >> reporter: identifying mosquito species may not seem like most exciting job but with the threat of the zika virus spreading to the u.s. it has never been more important. >> these are two that passed transmit zika, this is the picture and that one i'm's sure everybody has scene because very, very clearly black and white. >> reporter: also known as asian tiger mosquito, this is the lesser of two species known to transmit zika but very common to our region. throughout south jersey county mosquito control departments are increasing efforts to trap and have the state test mosquitoes for zika. >> they will say if or if not this area was positive for the diseases. fit is, don't go there. they will spray it. water management. >> reporter: that includes spraying for adult mosquitoes and treating ponds of chemicals and releasing fish that pray on larvae. dumping over buckets or anything that may collect rain water in your yard is one of the most simplest and effective ways to reduce threat of the mosquito and

mosquito transmitted diseases like zika virus. >> all you have to do is knock it over. they cannot live without it. >> reporter: each county says they have been doing outreach to protect themselves from mosquito by the and looking out for flu like symptoms caused by zika. >> relatively mild disease, and most adults, and great concern is for women who are trying to conceive or pregnant. >> reporter: one baby born in hackensack, new jersey reportedly suffered birth defects because of sick, more than a dozen cases in the state of been linked to international travel but so far none from mosquito by the and local officials hope to keep that it way. in lindenwald, cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". they are rare, long the jersey shore but beach patrols are preparing for possible shark attacks, and here's why, some experts predict 2015 will be a record year for shark attacks nationwide. over past century there have been 15 shark attacks in new jersey, three of them in the last ten years. experts say that the best way for swim tours stay safe is,

to stay alert. >> there are times when you should not be swimming where sharks are more active, dawn and dusk, you should swim in groups and they also say that bright colors can attract sharks. >> wildwood beach patrol says it started using drones to spot any hazards in the ocean. u.s. economy added just 38,000 jobs, in may, that is the worst monthly jobs gain since 2010, unemployment rate fell to 4.7 percent. job seekers showed up to day at francis myers recreation center to job fair where 40 employers took part. it was hosted by city councilman kenyatta john on. new developments surrounding philadelphia's proposed tax on city drinks. they are considering adding diet soda to the proposal. the 3 cents per ounce, soda tax proposed by mayor kenney with bring in an estimated 95 million-dollar annually. the mayor says monday would i fund universal prek, as well as improvements to parks, recreation centers and

libraries. still to come tonight on "eyewitness news", beating cancer. >> we will take you inside a celebration for local people who for the the deadly disease and won. plus. >> have you ever wondered what slap lining is? well, we were curious too. it is not for slackers, is there a whole lot more involved. don't fall, don't fall, stay there, stay there, more to come. we are tracking chance for severe weather as we head into sunday, talk about the main threats and time frame and when we can feel less humid air after the storms in your full forecast coming up, don. stop what you are doing and please, please send good vibes to the phillies, they could use it, what pete mackanin is saying about their seven game losing streak. guess who is showing off for the boss snows that is sam bradford impressing everybody, sports up next.

don bell, he is right here, guys. >> first i see that promo i'm like really, yes. that is us. >> it looks good. >> well, listen, i find you are a good luck charm for phillies. >> it did not work out that way. >> how bad is it, man. >> it is not good. >> it is not great. it is not great. we're looking to turn things around. it is real bad. 1.7 the number of runs per game phillies have scored during their seven game losing streak. they are batting .189 in that

stretch. let's cross our fingers and toes and hepp they can get a win tonight. they play brewers at 7:05. vince velasquez pitching for fightins. last night they lost game one of the four game series four-one your final score. overall phillies have lost 11 out of 13 games. offense has been a wreck. >> we go through it every day and, as i said, we're starving for offense. would i like to see our guys step up and start hitting better. i think they are capable of it. but we have to figure out how to get them going. >> yeah. >> to the nfl now talk to any player and they will tell you that collisions in the nfl games are like car crashes. none in contact practices in early june, have a feel of a pillow fight. battle is more mental than physical and right now sam bradford is winning between the ears. bradford has impressed coaching staff with the quarterback depth charity remains the same, bradford one, chase daniel two and carson wentz is 36789 here's

head coach doug pederson. >> sam is doing exactly what i have expect him, and what he is expected to do. he has been having an outstanding off season right now. these otas of been great for him. i think chase is right there, you know, as a backup, right now and he is pushing and challenging sam. carson is learning. carson has been doing very well, each day he has taken a step in the right direction. >> to the nba, game one of the nba finals goes to the warriors. they beat cavilers by five in oakland, bench players going off for golden state. they out scored cleveland's guy 45-ten. steph curry and clay thompson only scored combined 20 points and still get the w. game two is sunday night. >> yes. >> they have to play well. >> yes. >> i know. >> you don't to have tell me. >> she's a fan. >> yes, all right, don,

thanks. you are a fan of the warriors too, aren't you. >> absolutely. >> i know so much about them. >> thank you so much. >> i know you know about the weather. >> i know about buckets, rain coming into buckets. >> yes. >> i tried to turn it around. >> that works for me. >> try to stay in my lane here. we did have rainfall, pretty quiet conditions right now but things will get active as we head in the upcoming weekend particularly on sunday, day we are watching for potential strong, even severe thunderstorms but this morning just regular old rain, passing through the area, we have lingering clouds in place. we have had a fair amount of sunshine across philadelphia earlier in the week but closing the workweek on a cloudy net looking dreary with the low clouds on the scene as we look live at center city philadelphia cool temperatures in comparison to what we have been feeling over last couple weeks, 74 degrees, south east win at 5 miles an hour. checking in on our live neighborhood network we have had mess of the rainfall across lancaster county where

we pick up an inch, inch and a half in some areas, chester springs picking up half inch of rain this morning, kenneth square a half inch and wilmington delaware picking up quarter inch of friday's rainfall. temperatures right new we are generally in the 70's, 74 in allentown this time yesterday we were up in the 80's. we are at 07 in ac and 72 in millville. down the shore we have had a sea breeze kick nothing with temperatures back in the 60's. we are at 67 in ocean city. also in the 60's, dew point, we had a break from the humidity, yesterday but dew points are elevated once again, they will creep up last night and they are in the mid to upper 60's right new so we have that steam factor going for us as we head into sunday. dew points will approach 70-degree mark. so we will be in that oppressive range. overnight tonight mild night in store, 66 degrees. not great sleeping weather, probably to have turn on the ac. isolated shower or thunderstorm is possible with the areas of fog. the as we head into our day

tomorrow, mainly dry day, eight , four humid, mixture of sun and clouds and chance of a few late day showers and thunderstorms popping up but quiet conditions right now on storm scan three but we will have cloud cover in place, and few speckles of sprinkles and light showers out there but a activity is pretty quiet. quiet as it moved away, bonnie. it has regenerated in to a tropical storm. neat there to look the ate the on satellite but she's continuing to have move east and will not cause a problem for us but what could cause a problem, strong cold front as we head into sunday, moist atmosphere, creating instability and moisture for these storms to feed off of. few isolated showers in the morning, rumble of thunder but most activity will come in the afternoon and evening hours, heavy rain is possible, also possibility of storms, with strong gusty wind, so definitely keep an eye to the changing weather situation as we head late day into sunday but for this evening, pretty quiet conditions, passing shower for tomorrow morning, cloud around if you need get

that morning jog in, take dogs out tomorrow morning is time you want to do it. few isolated showers popping heading in the afternoon hours. by future weather not a wash out but storms will start to develop especially west of the city tomorrow night and we could see some showers, popping up, as we head into our sunday morning as well and more in the way of thunderstorm activity once we get that heat of the day, destabilizees atmosphere so notice storms firing off and red embedded in those cells. something to keep an eye on into sunday afternoon and evening. after after that cold front clears out we will get a break from all this mugginess on monday, humidity will be decreasing throughout the day, turning over to sunshine and cooler temperatures closer to average, 81 degrees on monday, just chance of stray shower on tuesday and nice round of sunshine in store as we head into mid week and possibly maintaining that sunshine into next friday, 70's. >> nice. >> low humidity. >> nice for june. >> shade are on stand by, bring it.

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a new sport that was recently granted official status by west chester university, may be suggest that you never heard of. >> it is call slack lining it is a high wire act only it is a few feet off the ground not a ton off the ground. vittoria woodill checks it out with members of the west chester slack line society. >> it is not a sport for under achievers, it is core working focused building activity inspired by rock climbing. >> slack lining is kind of, to develop as a exercise that climbers are doing to delay the original slack line are set up, was, using it four to one ratio with webbing and areas that was actually a rescue technique if you had to hall someone up mountain. >> there are slackers all over the region putting 1 foot in

front of the line like the slack line society in west chester. >> most of the students involved with the slack line society are hard core climbers into yoga and things like that, it is a really good exercise and way to get outside and enjoy something, and be a little bit activity without breaking a sweat. >> can you use more. >> think about leading with your belly button. >> and if you dared to tan get on the slack line rescues using tube webbing is made of nylon with tree insurance if you go outside with the tree use tree protection and using a tree that is fully blown grown. >> if you are a first timer cut yourself slack, start off on the slack rack and build yourself up. >> wow. >> vittoria woodill for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". nice move. >> yes, started years ago good thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00. we are back at ten on the cw philly and back here on cbs-3 at 11:00. up next "cbs evening news", scott pelley reports now from new york. take care family we will see

you tonight. >> pelly: washed away. >> do not under estimate the power of water. >> pelly: the search for soldiers lost in the deadly flooding in texas. also tonight. >> you say hillary clinton should go to jail. >> she should be in jail. >> will your attorney general go after her. >> pelly: under mesh pressure, chicago releases hundreds of videos of violent police encounters. and steve hartman. >> for years people who lived in this chicago apartment building have heard. >> pelly: tonight, they and you will hear the amazing story behind it. captioning sponsored by cbs